About us
OMNIA PHOTO is a cultural and training association dedicated to contemporary photography and image at large. The association aims to promote visual arts, especially contemporary and historical photography, through specific activities, ranging from organizing cultural events, exhibitions, training, including online, to promoting collections and image archives from Romania and from abroad. The association is based in Craiova and Bucharest.

Why OMNIA PHOTO
Our grandparents are the two “FOTO OMNIA” photography workshops active in Craiova and Bucharest during the first half of the 20th century.

Where do we come from and what is our goal
OMNIA PHOTO is a cultural project based on its members shared experiences accumulated during 10 years of collaboration in initiatives related to contemporary artistic, documentary and historical photography. Together, we have developed in recent years the initiatives to promote the photograph of Victor Boldâr, a famous photographer from Craiova, as well as those related to the visual documentation of the fountains in Oltenia. Our aim is to amplify these activities in the OMNIA PHOTO formula, but also to build new initiatives and collections of contemporary and historical photography to make them known to as many types of audiences as possible.

The OMNIA PHOTO teamDORIAN DELUREANU (Drobeta Turnu Severin) engineer currently works in the field of regional development in Craiova. He photographed during 1993-2000 the performances of the National Theater in Craiova; followed by a portrait course under the guidance of Luciana Mulas in San Marino in 1995 and a photo course at the Avignon Theater Festival. He took photos at shows directed by Beatrice Bleont, Silviu Purcarete, Mihai Maniutiu, Tompa Gábor, Vlad Mugur. Dorian has six personal exhibitions and his photos are part of the World Press Photo Foundation. He published in Le Nouvel Observateur and in Scena and Teatrul azi. He co-ordinated the exhibitions and publishing of the albums of Craiova photographer Victor Boldâr: 07.05.75/ Impresii – Henri Cartier Bresson în Oltenia and Victor Boldar-Fotograful peliculei de cursă lungă. Dorian is a member of the “Mircea Faria” Fotoclub in Craiova (founded 1963); from 2014 he is the president of the photo club. Dorian is part of the visual documentary group Fountains of Oltenia – vernacular monuments, group made up of researchers and photographers, who aim to identify, recover history and photograph the fountains in rural Oltenia.

CRISTIAN BASSA (Bucharest) works in the banking industry. He attended photography courses of various Romanian photography schools and photojournalism – documentary classes.
Cristian is also a designer and editor of photo books. He was editor of FOTO4ALL (2015-2016), Oitzarisme (2014-2016), CRITICAL MESS (2016 – present). Cristian initiated and conducted photo projects for social purposes/charities, initiatives that were finalized in personal exhibitions. He is passionate about photography as a way of expression and as a documentary force. He has long term projects on both film and on digital medium. Cristian organizes events and photographic meetings, including series of photography exhibitions on the film “Argentik” 1-3 editions, “Clasa de Fotografie” 1-3 series. He is co-organizer of Bucharest Photo Week 2016, 2017. Cristian is part of the visual documentary group Fountains of Oltenia – vernacular monuments, group made up of researchers and photographers, who aim to identify, recover history and photograph the fountains in rural Oltenia.

CRISTINA IRIAN (Bucharest) PhD student at UNARTE, History and Art Theory. She studied visual anthropology in Bucharest, SNSPA and Perugia, Universita ‘degli Studi UniPg, but also local comparative development at Universita degli Studi di Trento. Cristina is part of the visual documentary group Fountains of Oltenia – vernacular monuments, group made up of researchers and photographers, who aim to identify, recover history and photograph the fountains in rural Oltenia. A personal project of visual archeology, an urban research at the intersection of photography and anthropology in Bucharest, was published in 2016 in Portugal, the University of Arts in Porto. / Encounters with Photography / FLUP 2015 Urban Body. Cristina contributed to the documentation and the realization of two volumes of photography by Victor Boldâr, a Craiova photographer. Victor Boldâr: 07.05.75/ Impresii – Henri Cartier Bresson în Oltenia and Victor Boldar-Fotograful peliculei de cursă lungă (collection of photos on film 1960-1970, 2015). Cristina graduated from the Photography School “Fotopoetica” under the guidance of Prof. Francisc Mraz. During the last six years, Cristina has taken pictures of over 20 exhibitions organized in Romania and abroad.